CH> This merge looks fishy. It seems to be yet another let's throw my CVSCH> repo in merge and backs out Al's work yo get rid of lots of devfs crap.

FWIW (which may be little) the ieee1394 code in 2.5.51 simply does notwork and the svn tree (same code as in 2.5.52) does. For those of uswho depend on sbp2 for day-to-day functionality it makes current 2.5possible....That said, less divergence between Linus' bk tree and linux1394.org'ssvn tree would be welcome.